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Shoaib Iqbal

@shoaibiqbal1

Principal-level data architecture and engineering leader specializing in cloud lakehouse, streaming, and governance.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I seek senior technical leadership roles building scalable cloud data platforms with strong governance, mentoring opportunities, and impactful cross-functional delivery.

I am a principal-level data architect and engineering leader with over 10 years of experience designing enterprise-scale data ecosystems across healthcare, consulting, and global organizations. I focus on modern lakehouse architectures, distributed systems, and scalable ETL/ELT frameworks using Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Snowflake, and Delta Lake.

I lead cloud modernization initiatives across Azure, AWS, and GCP, implementing batch and real-time ingestion pipelines, streaming architectures, and event-driven patterns to improve scalability, reliability, and performance. I drive governance, lineage, metadata automation, and data quality programs using Purview, Great Expectations, DataHub, and MonteCarlo.

My hands-on work includes building BI-ready datasets, semantic layers, and analytics models for Power BI, Tableau, and Looker, and delivering secure, compliant healthcare data solutions (HIPAA, GDPR). I have a track record of influencing architectural direction, mentoring engineering teams, and defining platform standards.

I partner with product, clinical, and analytics stakeholders to translate business needs into production data platforms, reduce platform costs, and accelerate decision-making through robust data products and operational best practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

CL
Current

Principal Data Engineer

Clinithink

Mar 2022 - Present (3 years 8 months)

Architected enterprise data platforms on Azure and Databricks, building scalable batch and real-time pipelines and driving governance initiatives that improved data lineage and compliance for healthcare workloads.

SL

Lead Data Engineer

Slalom

Sep 2018 - Feb 2022 (3 years 5 months)

Delivered cloud data engineering solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP, building high-volume ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics layers that enabled client-facing dashboards and cloud migrations.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

UC

University of California

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science completed in 2015 with coursework in software engineering and data systems.

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